Poultry-feeder.



PATE'NTED APR. 23, 190'? W. o. ROGERS. mULTRY FEEDER.

APPLIOTION FLBD AUG.3,1906.

Re ge YS, 3fm/Damien 'I NITED STATES' PATENT @Fifl WOODBURY O. ROGERS, OF NUltl/VlOI-I, CONNlflC'llCUT.

POULTRY-FEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed August 3,1906. Serial No. 328,983.

To fl/ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that .LWoOnInir O. Romans, a citlzen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county of `New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful .linprovenuent in Poultrv Feeders, which iniprovement fully set forth and described in the following specificai after.

The drawings annexed hereto serve to aid in explaining my said invention, Figure l heing an elevation of a poultry feeder embodyshall not onlj,Y ef- I lodging the grain or other feed from said de-, vice, as l have explained more fully here mg nrv present improvements in their simplest form. tion of a similar feeder that is more particularly adapted for feeding clover, choiiped alfalfa and the like feed.

vertical, sectional view of the lower portion of the feeder, shown in Fig. l.

Briefly described, my said invention consists of a receptacle that is suspended by a cord or wire so as to swing freely, the lower portions of the circuniferential wall of said receptacle being provided with openings that p are barred or Covered with wi re screen hav ing meshes large enough to allow 4the food to pass theretlnough. The said receptacle is suspended at sueh height above the ground that the fowl must reach upward in order to peek the exposed feed and then dislodge it from behind the said screen. The feed then drops to the ground and is piekcd up and swallowed by the fowl who thon lifts its head again to dislodge another portion of the feed.

Referring now to the annexed drawings, the letter (L indicates a receptacle here shown as a cylindrical pail, l'iaving a hail ft hv means of which said receptacle may he suspended from a, cord or wire l); the bottom of said receptacle being located a few inches more or less above the ground according to thesize of the fowls to he fed.

rlhe lower portion of the cire:nnferential wall of the rceeptaele e is provided with openings a2 that are partially barred, preferably by wire screen c having meshes of 4suffi- Fig. 3 is a central,

Fig. 2 shows a sectional elevacient size to allow the' other food enough to food.

particles of grain or to pass therethrough, but small restrict the free passage of said shape and extends upward in the receptacle in such manner as to cause the `food to gravitate toward the openings u? and against the inner fare ofthe said screen.

Assuming now that we have a receptacle as dcsorihed (and as shown in Figs. 1' and 3), and that said receptacle has been partially filled with eorn or other grain; said receptacle is first adjusted so as to swing freely a The bottom o of they receptacle is of cone 6o few inches above the ground and the fowls are turned loose around actual experience) said f'owls immediately reach up and peekthrough the meshes of the screen c, thus dislodging one or two kernels the fowl then which drop to they grmind and reaches down to pick it up and swallow it. These operations are repeated until the fowl sai. f l for the time.l ln practice the reeeptacle swings slightfv from side to side as a result of the constant ,'iceking so that the Vfowls are kept in constant exercise so longas the; are feeding.

.ln the forni of feeder shown in Figff? the receptacle o is identical in construction with it when as I find by of the fowls, 8O

the one` alrmidiv described in det-ail by Ine," 35

but .l have added thereto a feed-trough d that is held in pla'ee atl the bottom ofthe said receptacle h v a bolt 1 and nut e as seen in said Fig. 2: said trough being sonietin'ies desirable when feeding chopped the like. The fineljv chopped particles when dislodged vfrom behind the screen, b v the peeking of the fowl drop into the trough d instead of on to the ground and are then picked from said trough by the fowl. thus causing the finchH Chopped particles to be caught h v thel trough they are prevented frein being trodden upon by the flock of fowls and wasted. iVhen, however, corn or other grain is fed and picked up by the fowls from the ground with little or no waste. a

ft will he understood that my described deviee operates both as an economical feeder and also as an exerciser whereas, under the ordinar)v inet-hed of feeding, the feed direct!)P upon the ground, the fowl simply gorges itself with an unnecessary quantit)V of food, and` thus wastesa large percentage ofit.

by seat tering grass, clover, and .90

Ici-5 Having thus described my invention, Yl l clainr* 1. ln Combination, a cylindrical food receptacle, means for suspending said receptaele so that it may swing' i'reslif, the circuinf ferential Wall ol said receptacle having openinUs at its lower portion in. 'position to be reached by the' mvls) reticulated means partiall)rv covering said @mailingsJ and av trough located below the said openings, and means for separebly c-onueeting the said trough with' the receptacle,

(tentacle, moans for supportingsaid recepl tacle so tliat it mav swing freely, said recepl. taele having' openings, reticulated means pnrtallj Covering' the said openings, a trough located below said openings, and means consistingl o1' a lmlt and nut for detaehably securing' said trough t0 the receptacle.

WOGDBURY O. ROGERS. lllitnesses. I

FRANK Il. ALLEN, MADELINE D. RITCIHE.

2. In combination, e cylindrical food re-' 

